Virginia Longest photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Virginia Longest
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Virginia Longest donated the Virginia Longest photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
Scope and Content
Consists of 38 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation, ruins of Hitler's Berchtesgaden home, the Hotel Florida in Bad Wiessee, and other postwar images. The photos were taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera by Virginia Longest, a nurse in General Patton's army, and developed in an Xray laboratory.
System of Arrangement
The Virgnia Longest photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Nurse.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Soldiers--United States.
- Berchtesgaden (Germany).
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.